Happy New Year!!

2015 stands to be a great year for all of us — I hope — and this outcome seems certain for the developers of several hot new platforms for M2M and the Internet of Things. The four new-school platforms I review in my January/February 2015 column in Connected World Magazine which blur the bright line I drew in my column between device management and application enablement platforms.

Instead, these platforms incorporate tools and techniques more commonly used for smartphones and websites to put the IoT’s back-end systems into hyperdrive and deliver applications and true enterprise value more simply and easily than every before.